memory consolidation

The Boston University neuroscientist wants to take the edge off traumatic memories by manipulating how they’re processed in the brain.

Technologies such as noninvasive brain stimulation and virtual reality gaming offer insights into how dreams arise and what functions they might serve.

The activation of young brain cells in adult mice is necessary not just for forming memories, but consolidating them during rapid eye movement sleep, a study shows.

Preliminary findings from a clinical trial of heavy drinkers suggest that the drug can weaken certain memories tied to the reward of imbibing, although the mechanisms aren’t fully clear.

The Østby sisters, one a neuroscientist and the other a writer, explore the uncharted territory of memory in their new book.

Scientists can livestream how the mouse brain’s hippocampus maps the physical world and accesses those memories.  

Injecting molecules from a sea slug that received tail shocks into one that didn’t made the recipient animal behave more cautiously. 

Every human brain is far more unique, adaptable, and vulnerable than ever suspected.

Studying sleep spindles could help neuroscientists better understand certain cognitive impairments.  

Autonomic nervous system activity during sleep may help explain variation in the extent to which the behavior aids memory consolidation, a study shows.

Suzanne Corkin, who studied the famous patient “H.M.,” has passed away at 79.

Researchers are uncovering the link between sleep and learning and how it changes throughout our lives.

Using optogenetics, researchers excite selected neurons to reinstate a fear memory that had been blocked.

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine. Age: 39

Birds may provide a new animal model for memory consolidation during sleep, according to research presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this week.

Remote memories can be modified in the presence of a drug that induces epigenetic changes to DNA.

A new study purports to show that post-learning caffeine consumption can improve memory, but some scientists are not convinced.

Researchers selectively erase methamphetamine-related memories in mice and rats.

For the first time, researchers visualize zebrafish memory retrieval in real time.